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There is an underground world of crime that emerges
slowly, showing itself only rarely as in this criminal
story I am about to narrate. It was created with
aberrations of functions, full of the conspiracy of
silence, connivance and horror in a democratic country
where in theory all of this should not happen and
should be prevented absolutely. Something must be done to prevent a
murder from taking place at least when this has been
notified to the Authorities responsible for preventing
it, after discovering that there also exists an
underground power where psychological torture has been
tolerated for years up to a slow attempted murder
concealed by connivance, with ramifications that start
from my place of work in Milan and arrive at the
institutional heights of government bodies, where, after
years of atrocious suffering, the injured party should
have been confident in receiving satisfaction from the
Council of State, while on the contrary, in this very
place, with regard to the main causes that ruined ten
years of my life and that the Administrative Tribunal
for Lombardy had correctly stated as alarming in as many
as two Verdicts, the Council of State had, on the other
hand, preferred to demonstrate only the marginal
aspects, keeping in the dark and concealing completely
the serious facts relating to my profession that I have
suffered, as victim, bringing further sorrow - very
ironically - in the year that is supposed to be
dedicated to the handicapped, to a person who had become
seriously disabled and suffering from heart problems at
her place of work, and in this way, avoiding in all ways
making a rational evaluation and reprimanding harshly
the perpetrators of the crimes and the mistakes made and
that are still being made against me, in the hospital
where I work: after ten years with various stratagems
carried out against me and the connivance of some of the
highest institutional offices of the Region of Lombardy,
after suffering serious damage as a result of my work, I
am also being slowly killed. It is in this way that
impunity and duplicity concerning what happened at work,
continued to be consumed without punishment against the
employee who today can only walk with the help of
crutches, because of the injury to my meniscus as a
result of an accident at work (I fell down some stairs),
damaging my psychological/physical balance as a
seriously handicapped person suffering from objective
dizziness also diagnosed by specialists, I have been
humiliated, scorned and laughed at for years by my
direct superiors at the hospital and finally I am
induced to suicide; all orchestrated calmly from the
Milanese hospital where I work, I am even been reduced
to poverty, and having to go without food for five days,
because I had no money until the commendable,
humanitarian intervention of my solicitor. The facts
took place exactly as follows:
VOICE TO A WOMAN
The scoundrels of desertion.
Because of their greedy mania for overtaking everybody
else and running ahead, for ten years I have gone through hell,
because of the most criminal, amazing and dreadful morally and
legally particularly revolting actions against me. I have
watched any political personality, that I contacted, even in
writing to illustrate my case, run away, distance themselves in
a hurry and make themselves scarce just as a thief does after
committing a theft. I understood that the stolen goods, at that
point, were the votes they had received from the population:
including my vote. I understood that in politics I found nobody
with "balls" that would protect me, from the dirty criminal
actions that I had been suffering for more than ten years and
that we will now look at. I saw that, as far as my problems were
concerned, each had shown that they did not want to be obliged
to intervene probably because they did not want to tackle a task
which for them was onerous or boring or unpleasant because it
also involved the fact of later having to anger one or more
colleagues who had clearly shown that they were engaged in
protecting the irresponsible, wrong-doers and unfit layabouts
probably because they had chosen them managerial positions in
public functions with nominations of political office. In spite
of the fact that the most Illustrious State Personalities had
been formally notified for some years, the harmfulness of the
actions, also extremely stressful and disabling was never
stopped and thus continued for years to unfold in the course of
the succession of all the events (service facts) that fall into
the criminal actions. All of this ruined and increasingly wore
away my life at my place of work. In fact, in any case, contrary
to every rule and moral value, to date there has always been the
most obvious impunity. It was exactly this criminal scenario
that made me become increasingly disable, suffering from heart
problems with the beginning of pulmonary hypertension and more
and more ill, putting my life more and more at risk. My name is
Giovanna Nigris. I was born on 16/07/1950 in Auronzo di Cadore
(BL) and I am resident in Milan in Via B. Rucellai 67.
In memory of my great grand-father and paternal grand-father who
were doctors (while my maternal grand-father was an Engineer
working for FALCK in Sesto San Giovanni) I decided with great
enthusiasm to go to work in a hospital. And it was as a result
of this great enthusiasm that I was hired on 2nd February 1987
to work as an administrative clerk at the Hospital
Fatebenefratelli and Oftalmico of Milan. Since then I have
always noticed that in that place of work, if someone became
aware of the fact that I had origins, on my fathers side, in
Friuli (Ampezzo Carnico-Udine), while on my mother's side, I had
origins from Trento-Austria (my mother's surname was Rech) - on
the part of the top management of this Hospital, I was never
treated with understanding, sympathy or humanity by anyone,
terrorising me and pestering me with economic debts and with the
mockery and derision of my direct superiors.
A strange accident
The devastating story of my life started in the year
1992, when a car ran into the back of mine while I was stopped
with my seat belt on. The result of this accident was that I had
to stay off work for about three months.
An inconceivable death threat
When I returned to work I was called to the office of
my boss who threatened that he would kill me if I spoke, a scene
that was carried out with a pistol on the top of his desk and
after this he sent me away, making me return to my work post. I
remember at that time that I was speechless and very frightened.
I couldn't bring myself to ask him for an explanation nor did I
have the courage to ask him about it later.
An unforeseeable arrest
After a short time, my boss was arrested and I learnt
from the newspapers that the reason for this was linked to a
question of "bribes". This whole business had, for some time,
gone under the name of the "Mani Pulite" (Clean Hands)
investigation. After this arrest I suspected what the reason for
the threat I had received from my direct superior was: I
remembered that I had naively confided to some colleagues of
mine that a Police Inspector who later became Vice Police
Superintendent of Milan lived in the same block of flats as me.
Moreover, a famous Magistrate in the "Clean Hands Inquiry" also
lived there. Finally, I confided with pride to those same
colleagues that I had made friends with the wife of the Police
Official. I now suspect, as then, that these naive confidences
that I made must have led my colleagues to think that I had
informed the police about what my boss was accused of and about
which I became aware only through the newspapers and television.
A transfer that was probably carried out seeking revenge in wrongful reprisals
Immediately after this arrest, on 6th May 1992, I was
transferred to work at the Acceptance Office of the Anatomy and
Pathologic Histology Department, where I and another colleague
had to record on the computer the type of organic materials
delivered (urine, sputum, etc.) the name of the patients and
what laboratory test had to be carried out. During this service,
both I and my colleague, pointed out to our direct superiors
that the containers of these materials that had to be examined,
very frequently were overflowing, since they were often
delivered in makeshift containers (for example in little bottles
manufactured for fruit juices). My colleague and I had to take
in our bare hands the forms accompanying these materials, that
were often wet from the biological materials, to register the
data on the computer. My colleague and I talked about this
worrying situation and complained, stating several times to our
direct superiors that at the very least a transparent protection
barrier would have been sufficient to prevent another contingent
factor, i.e. that of drops of saliva from the patients ending up
on our faces - as often happened - due to the acceptance counter
desk that was too narrow and therefore we were also exposed to
being too close to the patients. Unbelievably these warnings and
requests were never taken into consideration by our direct
superiors nor was the measure to provide a transparent
protection barrier every adopted. More than once my
direct superior pulled my leg and laughed at me because of this request.
They cause tears to be shed in spite of the fact that a woman also has a soul
Many times, I have had to carry out on my one this
work, and I became demoralised and cried because I was there
working in that contaminated environment without any means of
protection. But I continued working even if I was without
anything to protect me in those working conditions because I had
to earn my living. This practice of breaching the law and at the
same time psycho-physical violence quickly made me stand out and
suffer terrible consequences.
I caught tuberculosis
the end of 1994 I became ill and after spending six weeks in
the Medicine Department of the Hospital where I work, the many
tests and treatments attempted by the doctors also with the help
of the most powerful antibiotics were to no avail. I was then
diagnosed and treated for 14 months at the Department of
Pneumology and Phthisiology at the Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
of Milan with a form of renal and rheumatic tuberculosis and was
treated with powerful chemio-therapy and anti-tuberculosis
drugs, and thanks to those drugs, finally, they cured me from a
pericarditis, accompanied by atrocious pains of the joints,
eradicated the fever and also returned the inflammatory values
of the blood values to normal.
The State should provide safety
for its workers, have their places of work inspected but in my
case this absolutely did not happen.
Contempt for the life of its own employee further steps towards her death
Considering the long period I was assigned to working
in a contaminated environment, without any means of protection,
I presented an application for recognition of tuberculosis as
being caused during service, but the Administration of the
Ospedale Fatebenefratelli e Oftalmico of Milan preferred to send
me for a medical visit to the 2nd Hospital Medical Commission of
the Military Polyclinic of Milan, after sending false and
derisory declarations, in one of which it was stated that I was
protected from the patients with a glass screen, and only three
lines below, it was also stated that I did not come into contact
with the public in the place where I worked. This was
what was written even though letters exist written by my direct
superiors that unequivocally proved the exact opposite, i.e.
that I received the public also during non-stop working shifts.
With this criminal swindle, for eight years until today, it was never recognised
that I had contracted TB as a result of my work, depriving me of all the
legal benefits to which I was entitled in an atrocious,
dishonest and cruel way: an interminable list of problems,
humiliations and psychological torture were perpetrated against
a lone and defenceless woman at work, i.e. against me. After the
grievous bodily harm that I had suffered after catching
tuberculosis, this further violence against me with false
untruths was offensive on more than one front, since I noticed
that my juridical interests had been offended over the years
simultaneously and I had been given the impression of
participating in the apprenticeship of a murderer with a
training of Chinese whispers, created without any pity.
In Italy there are honest people who do not run away from their responsibilities.
Thanks to the correctness and impartiality of the
Regional Administrative Tribunal of Lombardy, I received two
verdicts through which it was widely shown that my petitions had
been accepted, - Verdict no. 3418/99 of 14.10.1999 and Verdict
n° 7630 of 27.10.2001 - including that of Petition of
fulfilment; but the Administration of the Ospedale
Fatebenefratelli e Oftalmico of Milan preferred to take only a
minimum part of it, into consideration and only with regard to
the second verdict i.e. the one for fulfilment, for the rest it
has always remained completely in non-fulfilment, continuing the
mechanisms of horror against me. It remained a horrible
procedure in a hospital, that has always wanted to "kill two
birds with one stone": use the weapon of deceit to run away from
their responsibilities and, at the same time, destroy one of its
employees who had become an invalid, always ill and poor, only
to cancel the visible signos of the atrocities commited against
me. Even though I pointed out the false statements made against
me even to the Criminal Court of Milan, nothing was done to
cancel the validity and efficacy of the false statements that
caused me considerable emotional stress, atrocious suffering
also due to my precarious conditions of poverty due to the
enormous economic damage and to the resulting worsening of my
general conditions of health, because of deductions from my
salary and further expenses.
Nobody ever did anything to stop the crime against me
My direct superiors were never prevented from making us
work without any means of protection in a contaminated
environment. To date, those same gentlemen have never been
punished, and eight years after, those terrible events that
caused me to become seriously ill with TB, the people
responsible for such a crime have been satisfied for the second
time, the first time when they broke the law and the second time
when they succeeded in getting away with it. It is a real
scandal! I was left for eight years after catching TB to wait
for justice, to be done and at the same time. above all,
allowing me - the damaged party - to be laughed at and scorned
with untruths about those facts at work. Moreover, when I was
expecting the State Council, like the TAR, to issue an impartial
verdict, I say that all these events at work had been allowed to
pass unobserved, even on that occasion: no-one, even on that
occasion, ever wrote even a line to me about the breaches of
article 2087 of the civil code - and the atrocious consequences
- resulting from breaches of the protection of working
conditions, that took place for years and then the further
sufferance caused due to the unbearable untruths about events at
work. I suspect that on the whole even this is part of a result
that falls within the strategic and tactical plans of the
Hospital Administration, probably created also for the pleasure
of feeling above the law and being able to breach with
confidence the law and the duties of truth, loyalty and good
faith against me, knowing that it would receive political
protection and therefore, succeeding in remaining unpunished for
ever by the law. There is no doubt that the truth would be good
for everyone, for the victim and tormentors. The victim, whose
professional past has been degraded and manipulated, would have
her dignity acknowledged; the tormentors, on the other hand
could recover the dignity that they have always deprived
themselves of during this whole matter, with their immoral and
criminal actions.
Further indifference "of justice"
Although the President of the Counsel of State and
the President of the Fifth Section of the same body were
informed about the strategies adopted by the Hospital
Administration where I work, to control the question with
misrepresentation of the false statements about the facts at
work, although the fact that my service consisted in the fact of
also receiving patients demonstrated with formal office
communications and declarations written by witnesses, all also
produced and sent, both by me and through my solicitor to the
Council of State, the misrepresentation was always made to
appear invisible since it was also without consideration,
evaluation and objection. Today, 8 years after the first very
serious injuries and after waiting for justice after such
events, lately the criminal proceedings first of all were filed
against the known accused for grievous bodily injury, due to an
error of form committed by the same Court of Milan, then the
same criminal proceedings were reopened against unknown accused
without anyone being able to clarify why criminal proceedings
against unknown, were re-opened, if the accused of grievous
bodily hard had been known for years. Maximum silence
was obviously maintained of the contempt and
cruelty of which a women had been the object for ten years, even
with relentless stimulation of insecurity and terror against her
person, reducing her to a state of increasing disability and
illness, always more desperate and exasperated, in the Sentence
of the Council of State. I was made to understand for
years that in the work place you come up against the
protection of those who have more Italian roots than me, and
that outside such protection, things get worse and worse.
For several years, as far as I was concerned, I was caught in a
vice, between the political tolerance of the crime and the
intermittent hibernation of the justice and enquires of the
Magistrate's office: for long years, after having been tortured
with breaches of the law starting from art. 2087 of the civil
code, I was made to feel the sensation of being slowly killed in
my place of work and for my job, today also with the tacit
consent of those who have been informed of all the facts. And
even notwithstanding the maximum evidence of the psycho-physical
tortures I have suffered for ten years, even though the Council
of State is a complex constitutional body, improbably it is
shown to me that criminal actions are tolerated after ten years
perpetrated against me up to the point of not being taken into
consideration. Today, frankly, after all the psycho-physical
tortures that I am still forced to suffer, I do not see what
actually remains that is constitutional, that has been applied
in my aid. There is a repressive response from the State against
my person and not against the criminals who have ruined my life
in all senses and still continue to do so.
As far as I am concerned it is shown to me today that violence also comes from the State
hen in May 2002, the Hearing was held at the Council
of State concerning my service (Decision no. 4394/02) the
President of the Fifth Section, I noticed, did not allow my
solicitor, who was assisted by his assistant, to speak freely,
giving as a justification for this that the Council of State
knows the law, and therefore there was no need for my solicitor
to remind him of it. Later I noticed that no consideration was
given in that Hearing to the substantial truth of the facts
regarding my service, concerning the crimes committed against my
person at my place of work; in a later Hearing again of the
Council of State, published on 29th September 2003 Decision no.
5510/2003, not only were the matters of service that I suffered
for ten years mentioned above and which literally destroyed my
life concealed, but I was made to understand that I would have
to have another medical examination in hospital with the
validity and efficacy of the effects of that which was falsely
stated by the Ospedale Fatebenfratelli e Oftalmico of Milan to
the 2nd Medical Hospital Commission of the Policlinico Militare
of Milan. At this point, a woman must continue to be humiliated
and offended by the Council of State also, with a further shock
that is added to all the previous ones. On the other hand it is
our Country that should have felt the shock looking at itself in
the mirror of its past relating to all these lacking and
insufficient controls on the work place that led to the serious
destruction of my physical-psychic balance. The Council of State
in this way showed that it had always tacitly accepted the
Administration of the Ospedale Fatebenefratelli and Oftalmico of
Milan had always used the false declarations of persons
investigated and then accused of grievous bodily harm by the
criminal court, by means of which it is even falsely declared
that I was never in contact with the public in my place of work.
With all the inactivity that I have suffered today, my life is
at risk due to problems in my lower limbs, and also even if I
have to work with crutches and apparently seem more secure, I
suffer from objective dizziness that have also been diagnosed by
a special medical otorhinolaryngologist examination. Dizziness
and instability at the same time also made me fall down the
stairs at work, with the resulting reduction of my salary, even
after certification of the last further 30 days of sick leave
issued by the doctor of the Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione
Infortuni sul Lavoro, which, also contradicting its own
certificate and therefore also itself, refused to recognise for
me about one year of absence from work, due to an accident which
occurred on the work place.
80.000 Euro to the Council of State to close the case?
I believe that also in this way it is possible to make
a woman go mad. I understood very well that there is someone
directing in all of this who for years pulls the cords of all my
suffering perpetrating psycho-physical tortures to my person,
openly eluding the positive law. I have understood that there is
someone who is probably waiting to see me die or commit suicide.
Anyone would think the same in my place. My solicitor mentioned
the concept of incitement to suicide, to which I am subjected,
when, before the second hearing at the Council of State, I
received an anonymous letter in which I was informed that the
Chairman of the Council of State had been given 80.000 euro to
close my case. I do not know if this sum of money was really
paid, but I do know that even before the Hearing of the Council
of State, someone already wanted to show me that they knew the
line that would have been taken later in the chamber of the
Council of State meeting. The person who wrote the anonymous
letter knew that I would not have won and knew that the case
would have been closed, as did actually happen. My solicitor
made me notify the criminal Court immediately before the Hearing
was held at the Council of State, making me enclose a copy of
the letter. I do not know who it is who continues to enjoy
torturing me and therefore who the people are that have always
secretly concealed the truth about what happened at my place of
work but I pray to God to intervene, illuminating the mind of
some one so that they will put an end to this slow murder which
for years, except by the Administrative Regional Tribunal for
Lombardy, is allowed to pass unobserved and leaving the people
directly responsible for the crimes that have been perpetrated
against my person unpunished. I do not understand why criminals
are so closely protected by the State and why I am slowly
tortured and killed. An abuse of my conditions of "weakness"
allowed to pass without any problems even by the Council of
State, probably to give juridical advantages to the people that
have committed crimes against me.
Social Identity Violence against:
1) Religion, 2) The Law, 3) Culture, 4)Civilization
Dangerous people are left unpunished. I remember that
in December 2000 the doctor responsible for the Operating Unit
where I worked and where I caught tuberculosis was poisoned with
his family and friends. In fact during the Christmas holidays
some unknown people sent wine poisoned with thallium to the
consultant responsible for the Department of Anatomy and
Pathological Histology of the Hospital where I caught
tuberculosis. I learnt the news from the newspapers and in spite
of all the evil that had been perpetrated against me, I was very
sorry about it. Since then I take the greatest of care and even
avoid using the Hospital canteen. A short while ago, while I was
in my solicitor's office, I heard that he had received a phone
call from a colleague of his who works for an insurance company
inviting him to reflect that if he went ahead with my defence: "
I would be killed". Recently, I was unable to buy food for five
days because I didn't have any money to do the shopping as a
result of the continuous reductions in my salary, made by the
Administration of the Hospital where I work. When my solicitor
found out about it he took me to a café and bought me a coffee
and a croissant. I have been surviving for several years with
continuous bank loans with interest and loans I receive without
interest from the Priest at the church of the Hospital where I
work. I then have to pay back the loans with my salary which is
reduced because of my absences from work caused by my precarious
health conditions and am always more and more deprived of the
economic means to survive. Since I have been receiving
psycho-physical torture at my place of work (today allowed to go
unobserved even by the Council of State), one might ask oneself:
a) why the Italian State, informed several times of the crimes
that have been perpetrated against me for ten years, offers its
silent consent to the fact that the biological damages continue
with the untruths about what has been going on at work, causing
even further violent stress on a person who has heart problems
and who is devastated as I am;
b) with what courage does our Country criticise and dispute nations such as China,
the United States, Arab Countries and other; where there is the death
penalty for people who commit serious crimes, when at the same
time the Council of State , in one fell swoop, through two verdicts
"pretends openly" to be unaware of the continuous crimes, even when my person
has become serious handicapped and must walk with the help of
crutches, all facts about which the Council of State is aware;
c) with what courage do they speak of human rights if, at the
same time, they conceal the psycho-physical damages that I have
been suffering for ten years in my place of work, in the ways
demonstrated above and then are generating a slow killing of my
person;
d) how is it possible to pay many millions of lire with
public money for lawyer bills to keep the crimes perpetrated
against me hidden, causing grievous bodily harm even after I
caught tuberculosis and up to today. This is proof that is and
will remain terrible. Time will never be able to cancel the
horror that I am still paying unjustly. Today, in a democratic
country we must ask ourselves how we can see, in our
concrete experience, the acceptance by the State of such terrible
things, even in the year dedicated to the handicapped and even
by adding further outrages on a woman enormously devastated in
her body and spirit. The documentation that is enclosed here,
does not concern a dead story, but is about a human being who is
miraculously still alive. The facts shown above can be
controlled, and allowed to get even worse. They are about to
cost me my life. I am guilty of being innocent, because I just
wanted to work honestly, following the example of my forefathers
who were doctors, one of whom, as a doctor (Dr. Carlo Nigris)
received the gold medal of merit from the Municipality of
Saronno (Varese) for his service and humanity as a doctor.
Unfortunately, I who am his grad-daughter have to suffer the
savage rage that men are capable of doing, cruelly treating me
and also invoking the name of justice, damaging my health,
mocking and humiliating me, with everything that resulted from
it, in a controlled manner. They continue to walk over the
rights of a person, because she is different from others because
of her Trentine-Friuli-Austrian origins. It is disgraceful! We
must admit that all of this is made possible, on one side, by
the constant flow of underground forces and on the other, by
highly visible forces, apparently heterogeneous and separate,
but which as far as what I have had to suffer is concerned, are
all linked by a network of hidden threads, by a system of
capillaries, which, when needed, circulate and spread poisonous
substances that kill slowly. If I am still alive today it is
only thank to the humanitarian work and spirit of the voluntary
services that have been helping me for years. Paradoxically,
when I turned to the Social Services Offices of the Municipality
of Milan, out of desperation and exasperation, more than once,
explaining my whole story - where there are people who receive
their salary from the State - begging for help, I have always
been abandoned and have never been helped. Crimes organised,
with so much cold bureaucracy, are, inhumane at the same time,
evil and for this we cannot but feel a sense of indignation,
scorn and revolting disgust, just by thinking that men are
coldly capable of committing them. In this way, everything is
transformed into mechanisms that generate the constant climate
of terror, without pity, especially when these things are
perpetrated against a disable woman, who with her handicap of
instability in her lower limbs and dizziness - already correctly
but pointlessly notified - finds herself also in danger of her
life, because she runs the daily risk of falling again from any
height, as has already happened at her job. Together with my
expectations of justice and against violence and political
hypocrisy, there is also the desire that at least after ten
years of atrocious suffering, untruths, deprivations and penury,
justice will finally be done, for the biological damages that I
have suffered at work, even if I am from Trento-Friuli-Austria,
all in the name of human rights,
of the value of the truth, of justice and the fight against
crime, against impunity and in support of a dignified life, of
personal peace and necessary social changes. It is in this way
that we will not lose credibility, as guaranteed by current
legality. The seed of untruth and violence, is usually like a
boomerang that has its bill paid suddenly through the forces of
nature which man will never succeed in controlling and
forecasting: he, himself has cultivated it. The wrong conviction
that the ends justify any means against those that have
different origins from their other co-nationals, has always
changed my life into an atrocious torture, and nobody has ever
shown that they understand that no values exist that are above
the life of a human being and consequently, above existence and
well-being. Medical specialists have recognised that I am also a
victim of mobbing, but this again, has been ignored: it has been
hidden, concealed and masked.
The ethnic discrimination
which to date has been controlled against me at my place of
work, "tomorrow" may be used against anyone else: even a
powerful ex politician who today perhaps sneers and amuses
himself by diverting justice.
Infinite thanks to everyone.
Giovanna Nigris - Milan, 20th October 2003
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